Clarke Steinback Ph.D. 3D Computer Modeling CSCI 140 Spring 2005 Josh Burke

2005 Spring ->3D Computer Modeling ->Galleries ->Josh Burke Josh Burke   Final Scene   Desolate Silo   Inspiration The inspiration for my project comes from my trips home to the Bay Area.  All along I-5 there are towering grain (I assume) silos.  I am fascinated and can never take in enough visual information.  I have the urge to get out and take pictures of them, but have no acted upon that.  So for my scene I wanted to put a silo in a environment it would not normally be in.  That scene happened to be a snowy landscape. Objects Silos (and all parts) Josh Burke   Landscape Josh Burke (using Terragen) Textures and Images All the textures on the silos came from the free stuff section at NewTek, located here: http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/   All other textures came from Lightwave Time Frame I spent a number of hours trying to tweak Terragen to produce the landscape I wanted.  After that, I spent about 4-5 hours modeling, about 2 hours texturing, about 2 hours for lighting and about 8 hours of experimenting with the particle emitter, the wind effector and the motion blur, which ended up not yielding much in terms of results of the final outcome, but I will continue with this scene and hopefully better it when I have a better grasp on how those tools work. Problems and Solutions My first problem came with using Terragen, a program I had not used before this project.  It allows you to create landscapes and then save them as many different file types including as a Lightwave Object file.  The program is pretty basic and it took some figuring out how to sculpt a landscape to my liking.  That was mainly trial and error and took quite a few attempts.  My next problem is still unresolved.  I could not get the particles to follow the wind effector, thus causing them to look like a cartoon version of snow, which upsets me.  I also planned on using motion blur in my scene but could not get it to work in a way which I thought enhanced the scene.  Another problem was the particle emitter, when using it, I set the number really high (in the hundred thousands) while I was trying to achieve the snow effect, because my scene was so big.  When I advanced to the end of the scene to see the maximum number or particles it would freeze up Lightwave.  So I ended up scaling down my landscape and silos so I could then use less particles to achieve the same effect. References Winter Landscape Tutorial: http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/106 Textures: http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/ 2005 Spring 3D Computer Modeling Assignments Calendar Gradebook Syllabus Tutorials Galleries Concept Design and Storyboarding Video Game Design Project

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